Garden City, N.Y. - On Saturday, the Adelphi University baseball team went toe-to-toe with No. 11 Southern New Hampshire University and earned a split of a series-opening doubleheader at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field in Garden City.

Game 1: Adelphi 2, No. 11 SNHU 4
Nicolas Luc retired the first eight he faced in order, but a two-out single by SNHU's No. 9 hitter set the table for four more to reach and three runs to come across.

It was Luc's one rough frame of the day. He went on to retire the next six he faced after the third inning and stranded a runner in scoring position in the top of the sixth and seventh.

After the first nine were sat down by SNHU's Brandon White, the Panthers came through the second time through the order. Although they stranded the bases loaded, Michael Draskin worked a walk with the bags full and Tim Feliz hit an RBI single through the right side, cutting the deficit to 3-2.

As John Rizzo took over on the mound for Adelphi in the eighth, Sam Henrie doubled down the third-base line with one out and a wild pitch added an insurance run to the Penmen lead at 4-2.

SNHU sophomore right-hander Trevor Anibal took over for White in the midst of the fourth inning and went 5.2 scoreless, even after inheriting the bases loaded with one out in the fourth.

Despite suffering his first loss of 2022, Luc finished with six strikeouts and threw 114 total pitches across seven complete frames.

Game 2: Adelphi 3, No. 11 SNHU 2
A pitcher's duel highlighted the nightcap, in which Adelphi starter Michael Storms and SNHU starter Angus McCloskey exchanged zeroes over the first four innings.

Storms left in the fifth with 87 pitches, but struck out eight and walked only one in his 4.1 innings of work.

Jacob Pedersen came on and was forced to get out of a one-out bases-loaded jam. He proceeded to induce two fielder's choice groundouts that kept SNHU off the scoreboard.

That momentum was what Adelphi needed. On the first pitch Anthony Cipri saw with one out in the fifth, the lefty hitter took the ball out to right to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead.

In the seventh, Alex Rende, who subbed in as a pinch-runner, scored on a wild pitch and a Kyle Olson RBI single added to the Adelphi cushion and made it a 3-0 game.

Those two runs proved to be much needed. SNHU nearly came all the way back in the ninth, but Cooper Johnson laid out for a game-ending catch in center with the tying run on first.

Pedersen earned his first collegiate win in the effort. He was brilliant across 4.1 innings. At one point. he retired nine consecutive batters between the fifth and ninth innings.

Head Coach Bill Ianniciello and the Panthers will look to take the rubber match of this three-game series, when Adelphi and SNHU meet one more time on Monday (Mar. 21) at 3 p.m. in Garden City.